In other words, the majority's justification for the stay was that if the vote counting proceeded and had appeared to make Vice President Al Gore the winner by the time the court could decide the merits of Mr. Bush's appeal, the Bush position would be untenable as a political matter even if it prevailed as a matter of law.
Counting proceeded by looking at each branch of the plant in a systematic order from the top to the bottom of the plant, observing both the adaxial and abaxial sides of leaves as well as full areas of stems.
As the counting proceeds in Florida (front page, Nov. 19), it is likely that neither presidential candidate will win by more than a razor's edge.
Drayman was in charge of counting proceeds from the market, but by election day, he was nearly 11 months behind on turning the money in, according to recently unsealed grand jury testimony.
Lance deHaven-Smith, a political scientist for Florida State University, said that Republican legislators would surely feel the political pain if the counting proceeds this weekend and the results show Mr. Gore either closing or ahead.
Even as those counts proceeded under the authority of the State Supreme Court, Ms. Harris's lawyers declared yesterday that she would certify the machine-counted vote on Saturday if she had the authority.
He may seek to ally himself with the Islamist party closest to the Muslim Brotherhood, which was tipped to win the day but appears, according to early returns, to have come second.More significant still, the voting and the count proceeded pretty smoothly and the losers generally seemed likely to accept the result with good grace.
Counting then proceeded painfully slowly, with the National Electoral Council suspending the tally in many districts, citing administrative problems like missing ballots or signatures leading the opposition to fear fraud.
Republican leaders are playing the Washington game: back-loading the most politically toxic elements of the reform, but counting the proceeds from them immediately.
Counting the proceeds from that proposed bond issue, Mr. McGreevey's budget team has tentatively identified possible ways to bridge about two-thirds of next year's $6 billion gap, administration officials said on Friday.
(This figure doesn't include some tricks that Osborne used to make things look better, such as selling off part of the Royal Mail to investors and counting the proceeds as revenue).
